Month: February 2018

I would apply the resources to my own teaching practice in the perspective of equal opportunity. http://supportingtransstudents.myblog.arts.ac.uk/ UAL has made available a wide range equality issues in the context of gender equality. However, I would continue on this subject by looking at it, in a wider collective meaning. Higher education has a key role to play in deconstructing the issues connected to contemporary social movements on emergent formations of power. This includes challenging the anti-education, anti-expertise and anti-intellectual strands of post-truth populism, as well as paying attention to the ways that gendered inequalities are potentially reproduced through pedagogical spaces and formations of difference (Burke, Crozier, and Misiaszek 2017Burke, P. J., G. Crozier, and L.Misiaszek. 2017. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education. Diversity, Inequalities and Misrecognition. London: Routledge.[Google Scholar]).

How could you integrate the research/work your students do on this subject into your teaching/professional practice?

Using my above response, I would focus on the topic of Gender Equality and Diversity to look at the subjects in terms of books, journal articles and online resources, exhibitions that are related to the subject. I would encourage the student to work in pairs and create a mind map, the word ‘gender’ would be there starting point to produce ideas and words that relate to and around gender to be used for research, writing and class discussions.

Here is an interesting paragraph taken from Monica Mookherjee book, from the introduction. How can one negotiate and integrate the claims of feminism and multiculturalism through a discourse of rights? This is a timely question: the apparent opposition between feminist and multicultural justice is a central problem in contemporary political theory. It also responds to a deep suspicion about invoking a political discourse that is accused of being either eurocentric, androcentric or both. In this book Monica Mookherjee draws on Iris Young’s idea of ‘gender as seriality’ in order to reconfigure feminism in a way that responds to cultural diversity. She contends that a discourse of rights can be formulated and that this task is crucial to negotiating a balance between women’s interests and multicultural claims. The argument is worked through in the context of a set of difficult dilemmas in modern liberal democracies: *the resurgence of the feminist controversy over the Hindu practice of widow-immolation (sati) *gender-discriminatory Muslim divorce laws in the famous Shah Bano controversy in India *forced marriage in South Asian communities in the UK.

Discuss two things you learnt from the text. And one question/provocation you have about the text.

Two things I learned from the text:

Patriarchy is deep-rooted which we are subjected to from childhood.

Patriarchy teaches certain views on how we are suppose to behave. For instance, Bell Hooks own life example, how her father beat her with a stick for being more dominant than her brother, alsoTerrence Real’s son interest in girls clothing, and his friends expressing to him that boys were not expected to behave in that way.

this was taken from an interesting article by Charlotte Higgins. The concept of “patriarchy” has offered itself as the invisible mechanism that connects a host of seemingly isolated and disparate events, intertwining the experience of women of vastly different backgrounds, race and culture, and ranging in force from the trivial and personal to the serious and geopolitical. For it allows us to ask, according to the philosopher Amia Srinivasan, “whether there is something in common between the Weinstein affair, the election of Trump, the plight of women garment workers in Asia and women farm workers in North America, and the Indian rape epidemic. It allows people to ask whether some machine is at work that connects all the experiences they’re having with all the experiences others are having.” The return of “patriarchy” raises the question: does the naming and understanding of this invisible mechanism offer the key to its destruction?

Watch the film: Pay it No Mind- The life and times of Marsha P.Johnson:

Discuss any reflections you have on the film.

I have never heard of Marsha P Johnson until I watched the video. This was a fascinating documentary, Johnson was an extraordinary strong black American transgender, LGBTQ rights activist who was murdered on July 6th 1992 at the age of 46. She was at the centre of racial justice and gay liberation. She was part of the Stonewall riots. created S.T.A.R (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionariers), and modelled for Andy Warhol and also a drag artist and prostitute. It was very sad that Johnson was harassed by trans-phobic hatred from people while walking down the streets, and discriminated by those in authority including police brutality. It was a bit sad to watch and seeing that Johnson was treated extremely cruel for been herself and yet she wouldn’t harm anyone. “Marsha P. Johnson could be perceived as the most marginalized of people — black, queer, gender-nonconforming, poor. You might expect a person in such a position to be fragile, brutalized, beaten down. Instead, Marsha had this joie de vivre, a capacity to find joy in a world of suffering. She channeled it into political action, and did it with a kind of fierceness, grace and whimsy, with a loopy, absurdist reaction to it all.” Susan Stryker, an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. Similar to Marsha P. Johnson most transgenders are subjected to cruel hate violence and are victims of severe discrimination in there everyday lives.

Creating my presentation was motivating going through my work and deciding what I wanted to cover. I think that my presentation was very colourful as I used lots of abstract images and gifs. I found myself speeding up the presentation as I spoke about thing that wasn’t in the presentation. I was grateful to be able to attend the Friday discussion group, as I was unwell and missed my group session. They were so welcoming a warm and friendly group. The group discussion was very interesting focus on Frierian concepts of social justice and Critical pedagogy, and at times the discussion got very heat especially when the topic that BME student are more likely not to complete there degree study unlike there white counterpart.